Baroness Amos: In 2003–05 the Department for International Development (DfID) spent a total of £79.6 million in Afghanistan bilaterally. The bilateral programme budget for Afghanistan in 2005–06 is £100 million. This has been fully committed and over £75 million has already been disbursed. By the end of 2005–06 DfID will have spent approximately £390 million in Afghanistan bilaterally, since beginning its reconstruction programme in 2000–01 (this includes humanitarian spending).
	In addition to its bilateral programmes in Afghanistan, DfID provides 19 per cent. of the European Commission's commitment of €1 billion (2002–07), and 10.4 per cent. of the World Bank's commitment, currently some $270 million a year. DfID also contributes globally to UN programmes active in Afghanistan, including those of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Food Programme, and through the Asian Development Bank.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Phoenix Wildlife Garden is some 20 metres outside the Limits of Deviation for the Crossrail running tunnels and should not, therefore, be affected by the Crossrail project.
	Detailed information on the environmental impacts of Crossrail is set out in the Crossrail Environmental Statement, available in the House Library.
	A Select Committee is currently considering petitions against the Crossrail Bill from persons adversely affected by its provisions.

Lord Triesman: Since the launch of the new Commission's drive for Better Regulation in 2004, 858 regulations and 107 directives have been enacted; 498 regulations and 44 directives have been repealed or have expired. Last year, with the active support of the UK presidency, the Commission announced that it would withdraw a third of all pending legislative proposals and, over the next three years, simplify 222 pieces of existing basic legislation, affecting more than 1,400 legal acts. We will continue to press for sustained and ambitious European regulatory reform that delivers measurable reductions in the burdens on business.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: A pitch on a caravan site, provided by a non-metropolitan council in England, would not normally be exempt from rent regulation under the legislation referred to.
	We are looking at the treatment of Gypsy site rents for Housing Benefit purposes in the context of recently commissioned research on the management and support costs for gypsy site rents. We anticipate that the final research report will be published later this year.

Lord Bassam of Brighton: For these purposes the Prime Minister's Office forms part of the Cabinet Office. The information requested is not collected centrally. All Cabinet Office Units have delegated responsibility for spend against their training budgets. There has been no centrally organised media and voice training for Cabinet Office staff.
	The National School for Government (NSG) deliver courses related to Media training. These courses are open to all Civil Servants.

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they propose to accept or reject the revised guidelines on Alzheimer drugs, proposed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on 22 January, which would repeal its earlier cost-based blanket ban on National Health Service drugs that can delay the progress of the disease; and when a decision can be expected.

Lord Warner: The following table details the attribution of additional resources spent across the National Health Service since 1997. We would assume that a similar proportionate increase in resources is attributable to Cumbria.
	
		
			  Cash Accounting Increase 1997–98to 2000–01 Stage 2 Resource Accounting Increase 2000–01 to 2004–05 
			 Real Increase in Total NHS Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL)1 £7.6 billion £20.0 billion 
			 Apportionment of National Increase: 
			 Staff and Pay 2,3 47 per cent 53 per cent 
			 Of Which: 
			 —Higher Wages 
			 —Additional Staff 33 per cent13 per cent  
			 29 per cent23 per cent 
			 Drugs 17 per cent 13 per cent 
			 Others 5 36 per cent 34 per cent 
		
	
	1. Figures calculated in 2004–05 prices by applying GDP Deflator.
	2. From 2003–04 onwards, the DEL for the Department of Health was increased by a switch from the Exchequers Annually Managed Expenditure spending to cover the increased costs of pensions. An addition of £1.6 billion was made to the NHS DEL to cover these costs from 2003–04 onwards. Whilst this change affected the overall level of NHS Expenditure, they did not increase. or decrease the spending power of the NHS. It is cost neutral. For purpose of comparability, the extra expenditure has been stripped out of Pay and included in Others.
	3. Pay has been estimated by combining NHS Accounts information, Accounts data for Foundation Trusts from Monitor, and General Medical Practice data based on latest information on the new General Practitioner Contract. Increases in staff are based on census returns, the proportion of extra funds to new staff and pay is based annual comparison of growth in pay bill with growth in NHS staff numbers (weighted by pay).
	4. Examples of other incremental expenditure include: Buildings, Equipment, Training, Research & Development, Supplies of services.
	5. This analysis may not be directly comparable to previously published analyses due to revisions to forecasts, estimates and Gross Domestic Product deflators.

Baroness Scotland of Asthal: Information about the number of prisoners with hepatitis C is not collected centrally. The then Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) undertook an unlinked, anonymised survey of the prevalence of blood borne viruses amongst prisoners in England in 1997–98. This indicated that nine per cent of adult men, 11 per cent. of women and 0.6 per cent. of male young offenders had evidence of previous exposure to hepatitis C.

Lord Hanningfield: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Davies of Oldham on 20 December (WA 250), whether they will (a) place a copy of all documents, including the final report relating to the review of contracts for transport-related research and consultancy services recently carried out by the Department for Transport in the Library of House; (b) indicate what the time period of the review was; and (c) explain what subsequent actions the department has taken in the light of the review.